Trump named in newly found Epstein accusation that officials sat on for 17 years: report

[cbabe]

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-epstein-2676900153/

Trump named in newly found Epstein accusation that officials sat on for 17 years: report

Alexander Willis
May 15, 2026 11:00AM ET

Newly unearthed court records reveal that in 2009, a woman accused President Donald Trump of having “knowledge” of Jeffrey Epstein’s “sexual desire for minor girls,” veteran journalist Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez wrote — an accusation she noted had been “available to law enforcement for 17 years.”

The accusation was discovered in a set of written answers provided by a woman who claimed to have been abused by Epstein as a minor between 2002 and 2005 at his home in Palm Beach, Florida. The filing is part of a lawsuit the woman, whose name is redacted in the document, brought against Epstein in the Circuit Court of the 15th Judicial Circuit in Palm Beach County.

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[Wiz Imp]

1. This confirms what has been obvious all along

Trump had knowledge of everything Epstein was doing (whether he participated or not) and thus is extremely culpable for all the abuse Epstein (and whoever else) committed because he failed to report it to authorities. BTW, not reporting knowledge of abuse is itself a crime. Key paragraphs from this article:

The set of written answers was in response to questions provided by Epstein and his attorneys, according to the filing, one of which asked the woman to “list the names of all persons who are believed or known by you to have any knowledge concerning any of the issues in this lawsuit.”

The woman’s attorney or attorneys responded with a list of more than 50 names. Fifth on that list was “Donald Trump,” written more than seven years before he would become president.

Next to the listed names was a brief description of their knowledge concerning the lawsuit; one was accused by the woman of arranging for “underage girls to go to and from Jeff’s island,” and another, of being “Epstein’s house manager during [the] time our client went to him.” Trump was explicitly accused of having “knowledge of finances and [Epstein’s] sexual desire for minor girls.”

Who were the other 49 names on that list of 50? And what were the brief descriptions of them?

[Whip-poor-will]

3. epstein rape club

ROLL THE TAPES end the cover-up .......enough

epstein drip epstein drip epstein drip

[MyOwnPeace]

7. The 'other 49?'

Hmmmm, lemme’ guess……….
What about Senator ?????
Oh, wait, don’t forget Congressman ?????
And, of course it couldn’t be XXXX - he’s one of our biggest campaign donors!

[evolves]

14. I can think of a couple (or more)

sitting on SCOTUS right now....

[Bluetus]

10. It is more than that. Trump was personally involved

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in the sweetheart deal that gave Epstein the "punishment" of sleeping at a government facility most nights, but being free to go as he pleased during the day.

Trump appointed Alex Acosta as Sect of Labor because Acosta knew the whole deal with Epstein and Trump. Same reason he appointed Bondi as AG.

This is all right out in the open.

[travelingthrulife]

34. Yup. People like Acosta and Bondi have been hiding these crimes for decades.

[republianmushroom]

35. There was one more just a couple years ago let us not forget.

Remember that old myth, "No on is above the law". Unless your very wealthy.

As Ted Lieu said, Merrick the Meer dropped the ball on this.

[Bluetus]

37. There are 100X too many lawyers in our politics and too few common sense people

A common sense person looks at this and says "Give me a freakin' break. It is patently obvious what Trump and Epstein were doing." (And Putin, and Guiliani, and Manafort, and Stone ad infinitum.)

A lawyer looks at the same information and says "Our system is 'innocent until proven guilty' and there isn't enough evidence admissible in court to convict them."

There may not be enough evidence to convict BECAUSE these people are very careful to cover up, like any good mobster. And they are not opposed to threatening, even killing witnesses. And all of that is BESIDE THE POINT. Politics is not a court of law. It is the court of public opinion, and the 1st Amendment provides additional latitude when speaking about the behavior of public officials.

We need the press, the politicians, and the people at large to speak the truth much more plainly. When Trump covers up and blocks the release of information, EVERYONE should draw the most adverse inferences from those actions. If Trump blocked a translator from, recording a conversation with Putin, then we should assume the worst. It is Trump's responsibility to prove otherwise. It is not our responsibility to dig up evidence he has carefully hidden.

Lawyers serve an important role in our system, but not as politicians. We need more people who will speak the plain truth.

[johnnyfins]

2. Drip, drip.

How long before talking about anything regarding trump/epstein is made illegal?

[SergeStorms]

19. Or, more likely......

anyone mentioning the "E" word will have a $5 billion lawsuit thrown at them that will be adjudicated by Eileen Cannon.

[mahina]

30. No, why would he do that when he barely knows the guy?

Right?

Beware paranoid thoughts

(Not you, Mr. TrumP. you should really watch out for those scary thoughts. )

[Grim Chieftain]

4. Everyone who helped hide the Epstein tapes is complicit

I hope the next Democratic administration will bring them all down and make sure they wind up in prison, where they belong. God knows those poor women have lived through hell and probably will for the rest of their lives. They deserve justice.

[MontanaMama]

5. I've given up hope that anyone in the Epstein/tRmp pedo ring

will be held accountable. I’d really hoped this would be the thing that would be his downfall.

[NJCher]

8. pin your hopes on his health

that seems like a good bet.

[MontanaMama]

23. That's my second bet, NJCher!

Been rooting for cholesterol for more than a decade but that MF is probably on a statin. Hoping the gonorrhea takes him out.

[Ponietz]

9. I'm not sure we can hold the lot of them criminally accountable unless we cut some ties with Israel

Epstein worked for Israel. AIPAC wants to look forward and move on.

[North Coast Lawyer]

11. Accountablility is for poor people.

We've created (by voting for these monsters) a system where the rich and powerful are basically above the law.

[republianmushroom]

36. It isn't going to happen, complete justice.

[NJCher]

6. also was interviewed by the FBI

See last paragraph of story.

FBI would have saved themselves a world of hurt (meaning being inflicted with Kash Patel) if they'd only done a more thorough search prior to trump running for office.

[LymphocyteLover]

13. If only-- but many in the FBI knew exactly what he was all about.

Remember he had backing from a bunch of MAGA FBI agents who helped get him elected. Remember them finding Hillary's emails on Anthiny Weiner's laptop that caused Comey to re-open the email investigation at the late stages of the 2016 campaign? It basically killed her chances of winning.

[Bumbles]

12. Unfortunately, the Justice Department and ohers . . .

. . . have been so hollowed out and replaced by evil people. I wonder how such a monumental, decades long infiltration can be reversed.

[usonian]

15. I'd pound the table day and night over this matter.

While economic disaster may split maga and split "independents", this will help.

They are not so smart. They are convinced that the Epstein Files will yet take down George Soros and Bill Clinton, and nobody else of interest.

EVERYTHING he has done since Jan 2025 has been to cover up his involvement with the Trump-Epstein illicit sex, blackmail and money-laundering empire. EVERYTHING.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

16. He's a monster.

Case closed!

Even before anything ELSE is revealed in ongoing investigations.

But, apparently, everyone has to bend over backwards for the fantasy-world Americans who can NEVER admit they were wrong about anything! Not about slavery, Nixon, Iraq, Trump, or anything else! EVIDENCE be damned! Poor fragile-ego, tribalistic wimps!

[Grim Chieftain]

17. Sick

[OAITW r.2.0]

27. This is why you know Trump had a thing for underage girls.

[kimbutgar]

18. Can these files be made fully public and not locked away like the other Epstein files?

[mzmolly]

20. Trump had knowledge?

He had more than knowledge.

[Seinan Sensei]

31. Carnal knowledge, maybe

[Grins]

21. How Republicans will frame this:

How Republicans will frame this:

"And who was president in 2009?"

End of discussion.

[druidity33]

22. Non Raw Story link here...

https://alisav.substack.com/p/seventeen-years-ago-an-epstein-survivor

from the actual journalist.

[Wiz Imp]

24. Thanks!

[Wiz Imp]

25. The Substack has more details including naming 4 New Mexico politicians who were implicated.

Governor Bill Richardson was previously named by Virginia Giuffre. The others are names I haven't read before and are also clearly not well known by the public at large. Richardson is now deceased. I assume the others are still alive.

Governor Bill Richardson had received $50,000 in Epstein campaign donations. According to a sworn federal deposition by survivor Virginia Giuffre, Richardson sexually abused Giuffre at Zorro Ranch on multiple occasions — abuse that occurred on New Mexico soil. Richardson denied all allegations. After leaving the governorship in 2011, he remained one of the most prominent Democratic figures in the country, operating his Richardson Center diplomatic foundation and continuing to negotiate the release of political prisoners abroad. He was never investigated. He died in September 2023. His death closed the door on any accountability. The DOJ file drop in January 2026 prove his denials about riding on Epstein’s plane, visiting his island, and being in the company of underaged girls were lies.

Attorney General Gary King served as New Mexico’s top law enforcement official from 2007 through 2014 — the entire period following the filing of the Palm Beach complaint. During those eight years, he accepted at least $45,000 in Epstein donations routed through shell companies specifically designed, per Epstein’s own attorney, to avoid “additional press coverage” given that King was campaigning on his record prosecuting child sex offenders. In 2010 — two years after Epstein was already a convicted sex offender — King met privately with him for lunch at a Santa Fe restaurant, the meeting arranged on official government email. King personally thanked Epstein for a pledged $50,000 fundraising commitment toward his 2014 gubernatorial campaign and flew on an Epstein-chartered jet during that campaign, later claiming he had no idea the plane was Epstein’s. The emails say otherwise. He launched zero investigations into Zorro Ranch during his entire tenure as the state’s chief law enforcement officer.

After losing the 2014 gubernatorial race, King did not fade from public life. He took on a series of roles placing him in direct and trusted contact with the state’s most vulnerable children: he served as a court-appointed guardian ad litem — a legal advocate for abused and neglected children who cannot protect themselves — in the Seventh Judicial District; he served on the board of CASA, the Court Appointed Special Advocates program, which recruits and trains volunteers to represent abused children in court, a position he held until his name disappeared from the organization’s website following THE PUGILIST’s first investigative report on his relationship with Epstein; he sat on the board of the Boy Scouts of New Mexico; and he was twice invited by the U.S. State Department to brief the United Nations Commission on the Rights of Children on combating child trafficking. Today, King chairs the board of the New Mexico Children’s Foundation, the state’s largest children’s nonprofit. He has never been investigated. He has never been charged with any crime.

Santa Fe County Sheriff Greg Solano, whose office held primary jurisdiction over Zorro Ranch, accepted a $2,000 campaign donation from Epstein in August 2005. When Epstein was indicted the following year, Solano publicly refused to return the money, saying he had already spent it. His office conducted no investigations into alleged sex crimes at Zorro Ranch during his tenure, which ran from 2003 to 2010. It emerged during that same period that Solano had been running a parallel criminal operation of his own: stealing county property — body armor, police equipment, office supplies — and selling it on eBay for gambling money. He was arrested on 251 counts of embezzlement and fraud, resigned before the end of his term in November 2010, and pleaded guilty. He served six weeks in the county jail he had once run. He has held no public office since. He was never investigated for any connection to Epstein.

Land Commissioner and former Albuquerque Mayor Jim Baca received a $10,000 Epstein campaign donation during his 2006 run for state land commissioner, a race he lost. Before that, Governor Richardson had appointed him New Mexico Natural Resource Trustee, a position he held until 2009 — the same year the Palm Beach survivor filed the sworn testimony naming him. Baca, now 80, has been out of public life since. He has never been investigated.

[OAITW r.2.0]

28. Disappointed with Bill.....I believed his message, sucks he got caught in the web.

[OAITW r.2.0]

26. Like. how much more evidence do we need to know that Epstein, Trump. and Putin were involved in a business love triangle

[struggle4progress]

29. hmmm

[dalton99a]

32. Kick

The woman’s attorney or attorneys responded with a list of more than 50 names. Fifth on that list was “Donald Trump,” written more than seven years before he would become president.

Next to the listed names was a brief description of their knowledge concerning the lawsuit; one was accused by the woman of arranging for “underage girls to go to and from Jeff’s island,” and another, of being “Epstein’s house manager during [the] time our client went to him.” Trump was explicitly accused of having “knowledge of finances and [Epstein’s] sexual desire for minor girls.”

In the other written responses, the woman did not mention Trump again, but did detail the alleged abuse she endured while at Epstein’s home, which she claimed to have visited “more than 100 times.”

“I was made to touch the Defendant. I also observed sexual acts and had sexual acts perpetrated on me by Defendant, Jeffrey Epstein. At various times I was unclothed, as was the Defendant and others,” reads the written response in the legal filing.

“At all times material, I was a child, under the age of 18 years. The Defendant also used me to bring him other minor girls and he controlled and brainwashed me into believing this lifestyle was healthy and normal for a girl my age.”

[lobointexas]

33. I highly recommend checking out Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez's Substack page.

The Pugilist with Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez

I also follow her on Facebook, that is where I first came across her work. Someone on Facebook shared a few of her articles like these, and that is what got me to follow her work.

https://alisav.substack.com/p/ghislaine-maxwells-father-sold-bugged

Ghislaine Maxwell's Father Sold Bugged Israeli Software to Two Nuclear Weapons Labs in New Mexico. Then His Daughter Led Jeffrey Epstein to Purchase a Ranch Located Halfway Between Them.

https://alisav.substack.com/p/epsteins-microwave-radio-towers-part

The peak of the Sandia Mountains is home to a communications infrastructure serves military, governmental, and commercial functions across central New Mexico. Every major carrier and government agency running infrastructure in this region routes through towers at that elevation. Nonetheless, a massive, private fixed microwave link pointing from Jeffrey Epstein’s compound directly into that hubis far from any typical vacation ranch communications management infrastructure — even for a rich guy.

The Jeffrey Epstein story is much larger than most people think. She seems to be one of the few journalists willing to investigate all aspects, and to let it take her wherever the information leads.